Subject: Re: XFS and NetBSD [was Re: News & Installation ideas]
To: Steve Rikli <sr@genyosha.net>
From: Joseph Mallett <jmallett@NewGold.NET>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 10/05/2001 16:48:03
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 09:39:33AM -0700, Steve Rikli wrote:
> IIRC though, from reading freebsd-fs et al, there *may* be outstanding
> src license issues -- i.e. I believe SGI released XFS src under GPL.
> The discussion I read in the newsgroups seemed to indicate that might
> be a bit of a tangle in porting to *BSD .

What I've heard WRT this is that if someone actually ports it to *BSD SGI 
would be willing to relicense as long as their lawyers okay'd it... This 
of course hearsay, but I've heard it from a number of sources, if that 
helps any.